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Premières preuves empiriques de chaos dans les ventes de biens à la mode - First empirical evidence of chaos in the sales of fashion goods
Bonache, Adrien; Moris, Karen - Université de Bourgogne - CREGO EA7317 Centre de … - 2011
(VF)L’objectif de cet article est de tester la présence de chaos dans les ventes de biens à la mode. Après avoir … plausibilité de l’existence d’un comportement chaotique des ventes de biens à la mode. Cependant, au fil du temps, les ventes … fashion goods are chaotic. After reviewing briefly the theoretical debate on this hypothesis, we present our results, which …
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Runway logic: "Y" Generation Y prefer fashion brand over country-of-origin
Tjandra, Nathalia C.; Omar, Maktoba; Robert L. Williams, Jr. - In: Transnational Marketing Journal 1 (2013) 1, pp. 22-40
fashion brands. This study was conducted in the context of fashion products, one of the key interests of the Generation Y, and … valuable insight to international fashion marketers about how country-of-origin information influences the Generation Y …’s perception towards international fashion brands. Qualitative studies which investigate the perception of Generation Y towards …
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Healthcare through social computing: a case for public–private collaboration
Valverde, Jose A. - In: International Journal of Management and Network Economics 1 (2009) 3, pp. 343-355
Lately, a new trend has specially outreached on the Information Society that of Social Computing. Starting from a citizen-focused model of health seamless provision of services, this paper analyses some current Web 2.0 initiatives on the Health sector. These opportunities would not be fully...
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Governing structural change and externalities in agriculture: toward a normative institutional economics of rural development
Petrick, Martin - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...
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Veteran Status and Body Weight: A Longitudinal Fixed-Effects Approach
Teachman, Jay; Tedrow, Lucky - In: Population Research and Policy Review 32 (2013) 2, pp. 199-220
About 10–12 % of young men (and increasingly, women) have served a term in the military. Yet, we know relatively little about the consequences of military service for the lives of those who serve. In this article, we provide estimates of the relationship between men’s peacetime military...
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The effect of job loss on body weight during an economic collapse
Jónsdóttir, Sif; Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 15 (2014) 6, pp. 567-576
Studies on the relationship between unemployment and body weight show a positive relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and unemployment at the individual level, while aggregate unemployment is negatively related to a population’s average BMI. The aim of this study was to examine the...
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Body weight and health-related quality of life in Catalonia, Spain
Oliva-Moreno, Juan; Gil-Lacruz, Ana - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 14 (2013) 1, pp. 95-105
Obesity poses important burdens not only on the individuals whose quality of life is reduced but on national welfare systems that have to face growing premature mortality rates, increase healthcare expenditures to treat obesity-related diseases, and earmark vast amounts of healthcare resources...
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Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Gradient over Age: New Evidence from China
Ma, Bing - In: Frontiers of Economics in China 7 (2012) 1, pp. 70-93
This paper presents a systematic analysis of the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on overweight and obesity in China and investigates how and why the SES-obesity gradient differs with age. Using a longitudinal sample drawn from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), I find that body...
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Food Preparation for the School Lunch Program and Body Weight of Elementary School Children in Taiwan
Chang, Hung-Hao - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 17 (2014) 1
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Body Weight and Labour Market Outcomes in Post-Soviet Russia
Huffman, Sonya - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014
This research focuses on the impacts of weight, measured by body mass index (BMI), on employment, wages, and missed work due to illness for Russian adults by gender using recent panel data (1994-2005) from the nationally representative Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS). We employ...
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